How Do I Change My Google Account Default

Google Account Android Hero (Image credit: Jeramy Johnson / Android Central)

Do y'all ever become confused every bit to which Gmail, Google Bulldoze, or Google Calendar business relationship you're using? Have yous tried to join a Google Meet call for work, simply to exist rejected because you were accidentally in your personal account? Yeah, information technology happens to u.s. too. All. The. Time. Fortunately, Google makes it easy non merely to switch betwixt accounts merely to set up a unlike account as your default.

How to change your default Google account

On the spider web

If you're already logged in to your Google account on the web (whether you're in Gmail or some other Google app), hither's how you tin can switch betwixt accounts.

Open a Google app in your browser of choice.
Click on your avatar (photograph of you or your initials) in the height correct corner of the screen.
Y'all should see a dropdown showing all of the Google accounts that yous've used to login on this browser. Select the 1 you want to switch to.

Google Account Change 1 — Source: Android Primal (Image credit: Source: Android Central)

That's it! A new browser tab will open with your secondary account app. If you lot desire to change which of your Google accounts is the default account so that whenever you lot open up a Google app in a new tab this volition be the account that opens upward by default, here's what you desire to do.

Open a Google app in your browser of choice.
Click on your avatar (photo of yous or your initials) in the top right corner of the screen.
You should run into a dropdown showing all of the Google accounts that y'all've used to login on this browser. At the bottom of that list, click on Sign out of all accounts.
Sign back in with the business relationship you want to be your master account. Source: Android Central

Now any Google app you open up will default to the new primary account. Of form, you can nevertheless hands switch betwixt accounts using the method we went over in the starting time section.

Another way that you can quickly tell which business relationship you are in (and I discovered this recently with a Google Run across mixup) is to look at the URL string in the browser navigation bar. If yous see authuser=0, that is what Google thinks is your primary business relationship (for me, my personal one). In this instance, I wanted to log in with my Android Cardinal account, then I only quickly inverse that to authuser=1. Then I was in the correct account (you can also just click on the avatar as I mentioned in the get-go section, but I thought this was a cool discovery, so indulge me in this delight).

Google Account Meet Auth 0 — Source: Android Cardinal (Image credit: Source: Android Fundamental)

Google Account Meet Auth 1 — Source: Android Central (Image credit: Source: Android Primal)

On Android

Open up the Settings app.
Ringlet downward and tap on Google/Google Settings.
Tap on the dropdown pointer side by side to the current default Google account.
Tap a different account.

Google Switch Account Android — Source: Android Central (Image credit: Source: Android Cardinal)

In my opinion, there'due south not much reason to modify default accounts on your telephone, as you can add together multiple Google accounts to whatsoever Google app. Just exist conscientious which account you lot are sending messages or setting appointments in!

Other things to notation

If y'all oasis't already, I highly recommend setting unique avatars for each Google business relationship you own. I adopt to use personal photos but to each their own. That mode, you lot can easily see which account you are in at a glance, and won't get dislocated past seeing initials with a different colored background.

Another matter that helps me out, at least as regards to Gmail, is that I similar to continue both my personal and work Gmail accounts open in separate tabs. This way, whenever I want to start a new message, I know exactly which account I'm sending it from.

A concluding note: you lot tin can actually log into Chrome from one of your accounts, and that will dictate which is your default account in the browser. Personally, I log in to Chrome from my personal account so that I can keep all of my bookmarks and history, and then I log in to work accounts separately at the tab/app level.

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